SXSW 2019
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
Description:
Ethical leadership is true leadership yet the headlines bear witness to the reality that our business, political, and community leaders can fall short. Wrongdoing is often not the result of people unable or unwilling to do the right thing. Most of the time, good people do bad things when they face pressures, biases, and/or situational factors that influence their moral decision-making. This workshop introduces behavioral ethics—the scientific study of how and why people make the decisions that they do. A filmmaker and a behavioral ethicist will lead an interactive demonstration of the award-winning Ethics Unwrapped program, used by hundreds of companies and more than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide, and learn how to tailor these free resources to fit their organization's needs.
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Takeaways
- Why do good people do bad things? It's often because pressures, biases, and situations induce poor decision-making.
- Leaders are uniquely vulnerable to many of the psychological biases that cause good people to make moral mistakes.
- How leaders can shape their organizations to make it easier rather than harder for their people to do the right thing.
Speakers
- Robert Prentice, Professor and Chair, Business, Government & Society Department, Ethics Unwrapped
- Cara Biasucci, Creator & Program Director, Ethics Unwrapped
Organizer
Cara Biasucci, Creator & Program Dir, UT Austin Ethics Unwrapped
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